No kidding. The CIA World Factbook describes South Korea as " slightly larger than Indiana", so all we could do is wire up Indiana, and I don't want to have to move to Indiana.
What we should do is power the ships by oxidizing hydrogen. When they reach the moon, they can drink the waste.
You mean like the space shuttle? That big brown thing strapped to its back holds liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, and the huge plumes of white "smoke" are actually steam.
Do yourself a favor. Before you make your decision, go take a drive through a trailer park, and take a good long look at one their that is about 30 years old. Then, go find a 30 year old real house (or as the people who sell trailers like to call them, "stick-built home.") A trailer is still a trailer, even if it is a quintuple-wide instead of a normal double-wide, and even if they call it a "pre-fabricated home," or "manufactured home," or "modular home," or whatever new name they come up with next to try to make people think that they aren't trailers.
Releasing an OS today without media playback capabilities is ridiculous.
Just like releasing an OS without a web browser today is just rediculous, even if about half the people posting here seem to think that Microsoft should do so, and get fined billions of dollars by the U.S. Government for doing otherwise and actually providing for their customers' needs.
If you can get Unix on it for the transfer (and with single-floppy Linuxes this should not be a problem) then just good old fashioned cp -Rp should do the trick, right?
You forgot the period. Wait 10 minutes for your 50 pages of errors on greenbar to print, add a period, and try again. Make sure not to close your ROSCOE session.
Your scenario would last for about 2 days, before someone hacked Mozilla so that it appeared to be IE6.
Isn't that a command-line option already? I know for a fact that it is in Lynx, and Opera has a thing in the upper right-hand corner to change it on the fly.
In the chance that ten years from now hackers everywhere will refer to this slashdot article as the origin of their symbol, I just wanted to post in it.
Along the same lines, let me take this opportunity to denounce this symbol, and the word "hacker" before the internet. There are two groups who refer to themselves as "hackers." The first are whiny little "31337 h4x0rs," and the second are whiny little "erudite hackers" like E. S. Raymond or R. M. Stallman. Somehow, the first group annoys me less than the second. I'm not a hacker, I'm a computer scientist, dammit!
It's not a measure of heat transfer, it's a measure of energy. You could measure the output of an automobile engine in calories if you like. Convert calories to watts to HP to torque(more or less) to thrust, it's all a different scale of the same thing.
Calories are a measurement of energy, watts and horsepower are measures of power.
Energy = mass*length^2/time^2.
Power = Energy/time.
1 cal = 4.1868 J = 4.1868 kg*m^2/s^2.
1 W = 1 J/s = 1 kg*m^2/s^3.
1 hp ~= 746 W.
They are not the same.
The new approach is bottom-up. We have no idea how intellegence pops out of a pile of neurons, we don't need to know. We do know how to simulate a neuron, we have used computers to simulate the neurons in an insect, and it works.
This is not new. People were simulating (or actually physically constructing back then) artificial neural networks since the 1960's. This research has been amazingly unsuccessful. That is because it is the wrong approach.
We know how to do what we want to do, we know how to make the parts and roughly how to stick the parts together, we simply can't handle a BILLION of them for another 20 years or so.
It actually would be possible to simulate a billion neurons today. A neural network should be an easy task for parallel computing. How big of a neural network do you think that new cluster of G5's at Virginia Tech (if I remember correctly) could simulate? Lots of PhD's have neural networks as their pet project.
20 years for the first hardware that could handle it, a couple of years to play around with it, and then interestingly, a couple of years for it to "grow up".
As I said before, this isn't a hardware issue. If an pseudo-intelligence could operate on a modern computer, than it could work on a computer from 1975. The only difference is how much that computer would cost.
It has been extremely successful for some tasks, but it has been useless for trying to create conciousness so far. It will be about 20 years before the biggest supercomputers on earth could even attempt it.
These things are perpetually 10 to 20 years away.
They were 10 to 20 years away in 1960, and they will be 10 to 20 years away in 2060, because this is not a inferior hardware issue, but rather an inferior idea issue.
Your PC could most likely run a pretty decent pseudo-intelligence right now, if only somebody knew how to program such a thing.
Yes, an interesting project and possibly useful, but I don't think that exact approach has much chance for producing conciousness. Maybe it will help train the first AI.
Intelligence and consiousness are two entirely different things, and therefore an artificial intelligence is quite different from an artificial consiousness.
When a computer scientist talks about an artificial intelligence, he is referring to a system that is auto-adaptive to the point where it "seems smart."
An artificial consiousness, on the other hand, would have a self-image and more importantly a will to self, doing things because it wants to, not because it was told or programmed to.
Self-consciousness is a vastly more important element of being human than intelligence.
You are thinking of programming in the usual "Do A then Do B then Do C" process of programming where you can just stuff a "Do X" command in the middle. Such AI attempts have failed, and will almost certainly continue to fail. The current and promising route to AI is by programming a computer to LEARN.
Actually, auto-adaptive AI like that is also a pretty old idea too, and also very unsuccessful. If I remember correctly, the first artificial neural networks were built in the 1960's.
It is my belief that the first pseudo-intelligent artificial system will actually be a lot of simple programming and a huge human-populated initial knowledge base, with very complex "corrective" instead of "adaptive" systems on top of that, adjusting for where the knowledge base is incomplete or incorrect.
But I'm still pro-choice. I would advocate against unplugging certain types of AI. I consider myself a humanist. Oh, and I'm anti-death penalty.
If a programmer manages to create an artificially intelligent program, and programs it so that it erases itself after a fixed period of time, is it murder? Or, since he is the program's creator, and therefore the equivalent to a parent, and programmed in this before the AI was first turned on, the equivalent of being born, would it be an abortion, and therefore acceptable to your morality?
Well, the Bible itself is public domain. It's the various translations that are copyrighted. I believe KJV is and has been public domain for a long time.
The King James Version was ordered into creation by King James I of England, and would have never been copyrighted. James was interested in displacing the Genevan Translation, not making a few shillings selling bibles. If he wanted money, he could just raise a tax, after all.
I actually prefer the integrated suite of Mozilla to having all the components separate, although I can see how having the option of them being separate could be good for people who already use something else for one of the tasks. I am using Mozilla Navigator to type this in right now, I use Mozilla Mail for my e-mail, Mozilla Address Book for all my phone numbers and addresses in addition to just e-mails, Mozilla Calendar to keep track of when I need to do stuff, and I would like it if they kept the integrated suite. How hard would it really be to have a Thunderbird+Firebird+whatever suite, similar to the current suite?
Fewer people want the job as the years go by. Starting salary for astronauts is grade GS-11, at $42,976 per year, and maxes out at GS-13 and $79,629. Anybody who can qualify can do better elsewhere.
It sure would give you better stories to tell your grandkids though. If your grandfather was an aeronautical engineer, which would you rather hear about? "Well, little Johnny, you see, I managed to reduce the drag coeffecient of the wings by..." or "... and then the main rockets engaged, and it felt like I got hit by a semi."
Surprisingly, there are an estimated 2 million Esperanto speakers in the world.
Assuming that there are roughly 8 billion people on earth, that means the odds of any particular person speaking esperanto are roughly 0.025%, slightly better than the odds of dealing a four-of-a-kind hand in poker on the first try, which comes in at 0.024%.
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No kidding. The CIA World Factbook describes South Korea as " slightly larger than Indiana", so all we could do is wire up Indiana, and I don't want to have to move to Indiana.
You mean like the space shuttle? That big brown thing strapped to its back holds liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, and the huge plumes of white "smoke" are actually steam.
Well, there is one that FreeBSD + PPC with AGP, sound, USB 2, and firewire.
It's called Apple Macintosh with OS X.
The only thing missing on that list in real FreeBSD is PowerPC, and people are working on that.
Do yourself a favor. Before you make your decision, go take a drive through a trailer park, and take a good long look at one their that is about 30 years old. Then, go find a 30 year old real house (or as the people who sell trailers like to call them, "stick-built home.") A trailer is still a trailer, even if it is a quintuple-wide instead of a normal double-wide, and even if they call it a "pre-fabricated home," or "manufactured home," or "modular home," or whatever new name they come up with next to try to make people think that they aren't trailers.
Just like releasing an OS without a web browser today is just rediculous, even if about half the people posting here seem to think that Microsoft should do so, and get fined billions of dollars by the U.S. Government for doing otherwise and actually providing for their customers' needs.
If you can get Unix on it for the transfer (and with single-floppy Linuxes this should not be a problem) then just good old fashioned cp -Rp should do the trick, right?
You forgot the period. Wait 10 minutes for your 50 pages of errors on greenbar to print, add a period, and try again. Make sure not to close your ROSCOE session.
This might do the trick.
You can easily fit an entire phone keyboard onto a wristwatch. I can't possibly be the only person to have ever owned a wristwatch calculator.
Isn't that a command-line option already? I know for a fact that it is in Lynx, and Opera has a thing in the upper right-hand corner to change it on the fly.
New advertising slogan: BSD: for when you don't want to get sued.
Along the same lines, let me take this opportunity to denounce this symbol, and the word "hacker" before the internet. There are two groups who refer to themselves as "hackers." The first are whiny little "31337 h4x0rs," and the second are whiny little "erudite hackers" like E. S. Raymond or R. M. Stallman. Somehow, the first group annoys me less than the second. I'm not a hacker, I'm a computer scientist, dammit!
Calories are a measurement of energy, watts and horsepower are measures of power.
Energy = mass*length^2/time^2.
Power = Energy/time.
1 cal = 4.1868 J = 4.1868 kg*m^2/s^2.
1 W = 1 J/s = 1 kg*m^2/s^3.
1 hp ~= 746 W.
They are not the same.
This is not new. People were simulating (or actually physically constructing back then) artificial neural networks since the 1960's. This research has been amazingly unsuccessful. That is because it is the wrong approach.
We know how to do what we want to do, we know how to make the parts and roughly how to stick the parts together, we simply can't handle a BILLION of them for another 20 years or so.
It actually would be possible to simulate a billion neurons today. A neural network should be an easy task for parallel computing. How big of a neural network do you think that new cluster of G5's at Virginia Tech (if I remember correctly) could simulate? Lots of PhD's have neural networks as their pet project.
20 years for the first hardware that could handle it, a couple of years to play around with it, and then interestingly, a couple of years for it to "grow up".
As I said before, this isn't a hardware issue. If an pseudo-intelligence could operate on a modern computer, than it could work on a computer from 1975. The only difference is how much that computer would cost.
These things are perpetually 10 to 20 years away. They were 10 to 20 years away in 1960, and they will be 10 to 20 years away in 2060, because this is not a inferior hardware issue, but rather an inferior idea issue. Your PC could most likely run a pretty decent pseudo-intelligence right now, if only somebody knew how to program such a thing.
Yes, an interesting project and possibly useful, but I don't think that exact approach has much chance for producing conciousness. Maybe it will help train the first AI.
Intelligence and consiousness are two entirely different things, and therefore an artificial intelligence is quite different from an artificial consiousness. When a computer scientist talks about an artificial intelligence, he is referring to a system that is auto-adaptive to the point where it "seems smart." An artificial consiousness, on the other hand, would have a self-image and more importantly a will to self, doing things because it wants to, not because it was told or programmed to. Self-consciousness is a vastly more important element of being human than intelligence.
Actually, auto-adaptive AI like that is also a pretty old idea too, and also very unsuccessful. If I remember correctly, the first artificial neural networks were built in the 1960's. It is my belief that the first pseudo-intelligent artificial system will actually be a lot of simple programming and a huge human-populated initial knowledge base, with very complex "corrective" instead of "adaptive" systems on top of that, adjusting for where the knowledge base is incomplete or incorrect.
If a programmer manages to create an artificially intelligent program, and programs it so that it erases itself after a fixed period of time, is it murder? Or, since he is the program's creator, and therefore the equivalent to a parent, and programmed in this before the AI was first turned on, the equivalent of being born, would it be an abortion, and therefore acceptable to your morality?
Microsoft: Where do you want to go today?
Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow?
FreeBSD: Are you guys coming or what?
The King James Version was ordered into creation by King James I of England, and would have never been copyrighted. James was interested in displacing the Genevan Translation, not making a few shillings selling bibles. If he wanted money, he could just raise a tax, after all.
I actually prefer the integrated suite of Mozilla to having all the components separate, although I can see how having the option of them being separate could be good for people who already use something else for one of the tasks. I am using Mozilla Navigator to type this in right now, I use Mozilla Mail for my e-mail, Mozilla Address Book for all my phone numbers and addresses in addition to just e-mails, Mozilla Calendar to keep track of when I need to do stuff, and I would like it if they kept the integrated suite. How hard would it really be to have a Thunderbird+Firebird+whatever suite, similar to the current suite?
You don't need to buy your drink on Sundays, you can get it for free: Communion!
It sure would give you better stories to tell your grandkids though. If your grandfather was an aeronautical engineer, which would you rather hear about? "Well, little Johnny, you see, I managed to reduce the drag coeffecient of the wings by ..." or "... and then the main rockets engaged, and it felt like I got hit by a semi."
You can buy such a thing already, here.
- IBM Model M keyboard from 1984, the kind you can hammer nails into a wall with.
- 5.25" floppy drive from 1989.
- 3.5" floppy drive from 1994.
- motherboard and case from 1998.
- CPU, some of the RAM, SCSI controller and CD-ROM from 1999.
- sound card, computer speakers, video card, 19" monitor from 2000.
- modem, IDE hard drive, ethernet card, printer from 2001.
- optical mouse from 2002.
- SCSI hard drive from January.
- some more RAM from two months ago,
- USB 2.0 controller from yesterday.
I will most likely be replacing the motherboard and CPU some time within the next three months.Assuming that there are roughly 8 billion people on earth, that means the odds of any particular person speaking esperanto are roughly 0.025%, slightly better than the odds of dealing a four-of-a-kind hand in poker on the first try, which comes in at 0.024%.